2. With so many homes on the
market, many buyers house hunt
for months, even years before
hitting property pay-dirt. Even
for the savvy buyers who have narrowed their
house hunt to an affordable price range, the
choice of several competing houses makes
choosing a home difficult.
3. 1. You start rationalizing its flaws away. Train
tracks 10 feet from the bedroom window? Next
door neighbor that runs a pigeon-sitting service?
Okay I exaggerate. But if you find yourself
viewing a home with traits that you would
normally deem undesirable or as deal-killers, yet
you like the place so much that you instinctively
compile a mental list of reasons those traits just
don’t matter, you might have found “The One.”
4. 2. The bathroom and kitchen don’t disgust
you. We humans are born with only two fears in
life: the fear of falling and the fear of loud
noises. By about eight months old, we start to
acquire new fears, and most of us never
stop. Among the first fear most people learn:
the fear of other people’s kitchens and
bathrooms.
5. 3. You involuntarily envision your own
family, furniture, decor, daily activities or
remodeling choices in/to the home. They say that
the best staging helps prospective buyers envision
their own idealized lives taking place in the staged
home. But whether or not a property is staged, if
you find your mind’s eye Photoshopping a given
property to insert your own kids and sofa into the
living room, your dining table and favorite wall
hangings into place in the dining room, and your
daily meditation in the breakfast nook – or even
start mentally removing walls entirely – it’s entirely
possible that the home you’re in could be “The
One” for you.
7. Homeowners: How did you know when you’d
found the right home for you and your family?
8. Randy Bett
Investment Realtor/Author/Investor
Real Estate Professionals Inc.
Better Group Real Estate
202-5403 Crowchild Trail NW
Calgary, AB T3B 4Z1
Phone:403-774-7464 Ext:1
Fax:403-208-0082
Toll Free fax:888-711-6801
